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I have been tracking the COVID-19 pandemic, as most of us have. This is the first pandemic our generation has seen. And it is a pandemic that is taking place in a world that is dramatically different from the one the Spanish Flu, plague and cholera epidemics took place in. In our data rich world, Read More

It was an oddly sunny day in Dortmund. Odd, becuase this part of northwestern Germany is not known for many sunny days – much less one in the middle of February. Nonetheless, it was a perfect match for my mood. Read More

This post is a response to a blog post by @pritishnandy called ‘The tyranny of numbers‘ , presenting a counter-argument. It seems the average human is a very non-quantitative organism. At the very least, we seem to be largely unaware of our mathematical capabilities in day to day life. No matter that the human brain performs Read More

Now that we have seen how to choose and set optimal resolutions for the the microscopy experiment, we should now discuss something about how the intensity of the image that is acquired. A word on resolution and contrast It makes sense to discuss this now because the different intensities of various regions of a sample Read More